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turning off case sensitivity in r

I am having difficulty with case sensitivity. Can we turn it off?

A1 <- c("a", "A", "a", "a", "A", "A", "a") B1 <- c(rep("a", length(A1)))  A1 == B1 # [1]  TRUE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE 

should be all TRUE

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jon Avatar asked Dec 02 '11 19:12

jon


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1 Answers

There's no way to turn off case sensitivity of ==, but coercing both character vectors to uppercase and then testing for equality amounts to the same thing:

toupper(A1) [1] "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A"  toupper(A1)==toupper(B1) # [1] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE 
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Josh O'Brien Avatar answered Oct 14 '22 10:10

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